The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

